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Author Karakatsanis, Alec, 1983- author.

Title Usual cruelty : the complicity of lawyers in the criminal injustice system / Alec Karakatsanis.

Publication Info. New York : The New Press, 2019.
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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  345.7305 KAR    Check Shelf
Description 231 pages ; 20 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction -- The Punishment Bureaucracy -- The Human Lawyer -- Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of American Lawyers
Summary "From an award-winning civil rights lawyer, a profound challenge to our society's normalization of the caging of human beings, and the role of the legal profession in perpetuating it"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Criminal justice, Administration of -- Corrupt practices -- United States.
Public prosecutors -- Malpractice -- United States.
Criminal defense lawyers -- Malpractice -- United States.
Public prosecutors -- Malpractice. (OCoLC)fst02027060
Criminal defense lawyers -- Malpractice. (OCoLC)fst02027059
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Corrupt practices. (OCoLC)fst00883259
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
ISBN 9781620975275 hardcover
1620975270 hardcover
9781620975282 electronic book
Standard No. 40029780474
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